FAVORITISM AND THE TRUCK SYSTEM.

Kumara Times, Issue 1728, 14 April 1882, Page 2

FAVORITISM AND THE TRUCK SYSTEM.

[to the EDITOR, j Sib—Should you apprehend any danger to your Mining Reporter in Com sequence of his outspoken comments on the mode of letting public works, left me know, so that I might be handy when he is attacked, to ward off and return some of the thundering blows aimed at his audacious head, for: I am one wifi him on the- same subject. I must, however, call him to account; He spoke of Burning, sinking shafts, <kc. ; but he forgot to say anything about the fencing of the Camp and other works done in that establishment. I was long ago aware of the favored individuals he alluded to; but I would like to know if these crawlers up the sleeve are employed on all the public works. If so, the sooner there is an inquiry about it the better for the country, and at once and for ever strangle this filthy hole-and-corner style of letting works, and so common in Kmuara. And the same applies to all publicbodies, whether Church, Hospital, Asylum, or Benevolent Horae. They are and all have got their white-headed Johnnies. Now there is very little to bo said about publicans or storekeepers; they, with the exception of the respectable ones, mostly give their work to drunken loafers, who, in order to get their beer and tucker, will do it any-, ! for r half' the price that an honest legitimate workman could do it. Of course the latter has to pay cash for everything; the other individual has no cash to pay with ; and tho shark takes a mean advantage of his unfortunate position, and’robs their bungler of his labor to the prejudice of the respectable worker from whom the cash is expected.—l am, & c.. Rabbit,